All mobile devices have apps installed by default. In most cases, these applications cannot be uninstalled, which, if we do not use them, causes them to end up in a "special" folder (to say the least). Apple did not use to include many of its applications installed by default, but there are more and more apps that we have scattered around the springboard that we would not like to see. If the problem were only to see these applications, the metadata of iTunes They suggest that we can make them disappear shortly.
The internal API includes «isFirstParty" is "isFirstPartyHideableApp«. The second text would be translated as "it is official application that can be hidden", which leaves very little for the imagination. Considering that we can manage the content of the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad with iTunes and even modify the distribution of icons and folders, it would make sense that we could hide some apps too with the apple media player.
iTunes will allow you to hide applications
Being just over two months away from the 2016 WWDC, Most likely, this novelty is one of those included in iOS 10. I see it difficult and unnecessary to hide some applications, such as the phone or Safari, but there are some that I would hide without thinking twice . For example, the Contacts application, since to access them, the Phone app is enough.
Another possibility is that some of the applications begin to appear in the App Store. Some of them, as is the case of the "Find my iPhone" application, what they would do in this case is that they would return, since relatively recently they were not installed by default. On the other hand, this would serve to update these applications without having to launch a new version of iOS, something that we can see, for example, in the Remote application: Apple said that a new version would arrive that would allow us to use our iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad as if it were a Siri Remote and if the application were installed by default we would have to wait at least two months to use this new function.
As always, to clear up doubts we have no other option but to wait. Maybe in June we will know all the details.
